Author: fairleft

The politics of many aspects of American life are more or less ‘owned’ by their associated interest groups, often just one, the interest group making money from that aspect of U.S. life. But education is not one of...

Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley announced yesterday that he is stepping down after 21 years in power. He’s been the mayor of a large American city for such a long time that inevitably he’ll be blamed and credited...

Summary: President Obama’s Social Security cutbacks are being trial ballooned today, with little resistance shown by the official left. Obama wants us not to notice those plans, while animatedly (since 2007) nodding and...

[Apologies if this is only a moderately different take from Booman’s, but the DNC’s questioning-patriotism rhetoric and the widespread PTB tabooing of the truth deserve as much attention as possible.] For a brief and...

The U.S. being the U.S., it would be smart not to look with ‘peacenik’ optimism on Afghanistan disarray and Obama’s stubborn pursuit of a failed and fraudulent strategy there, but probably more realistic to...